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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1950
Page
3
Harry D. Holmes, Bluefield census enumerator, conducts a district spot check with a city map divided into 31 districts to verify dwelling counts. The district office reported a ten year population gain of 691, a figure criticized by the chamber of commerce and city officials.
A listed air schedule shows programs from 6:30 to 11:15 including Organ Melodies Light Up Time News of the World Lonesome Gal Stars And Starters We the People Screen Directors' Playhouse Sports Newsreel News Mindy Carson Sings and Pro And Con UL LL LE 4.
The body of James Hubert Kanode a retired Virginian railway engineer from Princeton will move from Memorial funeral directory chapel to Kee Street Methodist church at 1 PM for a service at 2 PM led by Rev. Z F Mayberry. Interment is Monte Viste cemetery. Pallbearers include Bill Hessel Howard Hessel Ray Wright Rupert Mann Herman Six Opal Funkhouser Garnett Funkhouser. Friends and neighbors will be flowerbearers. The body will remain at Memorial funeral directory pending arrangements.
Estel C. Runyon 55 of War died Wednesday afternoon en route to Welch hospital. Funeral services will be held today at 2 pm from War Methodist Church with Rev. Robert Fuqua officiating. Interment follows at Woodlawn Cemetery. The body will be moved from O. J. Douglas Mortuary, Welch, to the church at noon.
Sam Marx Collins of Hurricane Branch near Bradshaw died of a heart condition in a Welch hospital. A noon service from the home will be conducted by Reverends James Short Roy Pruett and Tracey Pruett of Short Ridge. Burial follows at Short Ridge cemetery.
Funeral services are held this afternoon at 2 from the Richlands home for Donald Blankenship 16 son of Mr and Mrs Wiley Blankenship who died after a motorcycle collided with a truck Tuesday Rev H D Hawkins officiates Interment is in Clinch Valley Memorial cemetery Richlands Freshman class of Richlands High School serves as pallbearers and flower bearers.
Mrs Virginia Tilson Sutherland died Tuesday afternoon in St Luke s hospital after a heart attack at her home 1303 Augusta street Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon at Hawkins chapel with Rev Cecil V Cook Jr and Rev de Stinson officiating Interment followed at Monte Vista cemetery She was a member of the First Baptist church
Funeral service for Venananzio Joe Pompie 53 of Josephine is set for today at 2 p m at Besoco Methodist Church with Rev A F Eggleston officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park Beckley. Pompie born May 17 1897 in Casavicchia Italy leaves wife Philly four sons Virgil Floyd Bill Angelo three grandchildren and three brothers in Italy plus one in South America. He was active in Besoco Methodist church Beckley Moose and Sophia IOOF lodge. The body was brought from Robertson and a mortuary Thursday at ? m.
The body of Mrs Julia Akers Landers wife of Guy Landers of West Warwick Rhode Island arrives in Bluefield and will be taken to Hawkins funeral chapel. She died at her home Tuesday after a brief illness.
Funeral service for Joe Clarence Graham 35 of Rift near War will be held at 2 p m Saturday at War Church of God. Burial at Adria Va. Survived by widow Elizabeth Price a son Dennis Tracy and two daughters Ber tha May and Minnie. Graham killed in a fall of state at Jacobs Fork Coal Co. born July 26 1914 in Raven Va. Body moved from O J Douglas mortuary Friday afternoon to residence.
Residents of Raleigh county will host a household shower and a day of work to rebuild for Mr and Mrs Garland Monk whose home was struck by lightning and burned last week. Loss valued at 5000 dollars with no insurance. Willing Workers of West View Baptist church organize the relief effort and community men will build a new home on the ruined site. Donations welcome through Mrs Homer Thompson of Odd.
Revival services begin tomorrow night at Littlesburg Holiness Church with Rev. John Durham of Livingston Kentucky delivering messages. Pastor Rev. Emmet Isom leads the church, and services are held in the tent below Thompson's Chapel on East Cumberland Road.
The body requires small quantities of iodine for growth development and healthy skin and hair and mental alertness.
Bruce Montgomery about 50 of Glen Lyn Va is in critical condition after a severe head injury at a saw mill near Glen Lyn He was found unconscious at 11 am and rushed to Bluefield Sanitarium Montgomery may have been struck by a wedge from a wedge machine none of the workers saw the accident Giles French owner of the mill said Montgomery was found by Essie Akers Glen Lyn.
With four days left in Welch, West Virginia, voters will elect a mayor two at large council members and three ward councilmen for two years starting July 1. Democratic nominee Edward Lockhart and Republican Reno F. Howard lead campaigns emphasizing traffic and parking solutions amid disputed population figures from census data.
Bartley West Virginia June 1 Hundreds of persons are expected here Saturday for the Memorial service for the miners who lost their lives in the January 10 1940 explosion in No 1 mine. George J Titler of Beckley president of district 29 UMWA will be the speaker of the day. The services are sponsored by UMW Local Unions 6613 and 6420 Bartley No 5839 Raysal and Yukon Lodge No 349 IOOF. E J Vinson president of Local Union No 6613 will be master of ceremonies. Entertainment and refreshments will be provided.
The Southern Appalachian Industrial show will gain a professional Atlantic City decorator to furnish booths and bunting, with 217 booths already rented. The four day event runs August 16 to 19 and includes a pioneer miners round up, a queen contest, a gadget inventions contest with awards, and a gala party for coal operators and officials.
Roanoke musicians Mrs. W. H. Cantrell accompanied Miss Esther Elliott at a Graham-Kiwanis meeting in Bluefield. Elliott played Mozart, Chaminade, and Beethoven works. Guests included Dan Frazier and J. Dodd Mortensen, with Bluefield Kiwanis members W. C. Pollack and Ralph Huff among others.
Mullens West Virginia plans advance planning money for a new sewer system and a parking building. Mayor W M Holroyd reports federal approval is imminent after years of applications and local funding constraints.
Sgt M C Yoak, in charge of Mercer county detachment since 1946, leaves for Greenbrier Monroe Summers detachment to be stationed in Lewisburg. Cpl G T Davis succeeds him, with several other promotions announced by WV state police.
A thirty eight annual short course in coal mining will open Monday at 8 AM in the Welch high school building. B B Lucas Jr, resident instructor in charge, says the six week program runs to July 15 with subjects including mine ventilation, gases, fires and explosions, timbering, safety lamps, electricity, haulage, explosives, foremanship, and West Virginia mining laws. Examinations for certificates of competency for mine foremen and fire bosses will be conducted by the West Virginia department of mines at course end.
The Bluefield Commandery No. 19 holds an evening conclave at 7:00 with Order of the Temple conferment and officer installation. Visiting Sir Knights invited. Eminent Commander Louis D. Wilmore and Recorder Millard F. Thompson listed. Screen time offered by Bailey Lumber Company for shop fittings.
The Bluefield Shrine club will honor Princeton members with a 6 30 p m ladies night banquet at the Christian church in Princeton. Co chairmen W H Foster and J H Evans say a good musical program is set and a brief business session will precede dinner. About 600 Shriners exist in Bluefield with over 100 residing in Princeton.
A 16 year old Bluefield colored youth was released to his parents to await trial for breaking and entering at Bowen field locker room. Virginia and West Virginia officers found two catchers mitts four outfielders gloves and a cap. He is to appear before Trial Justice Albert G. Perry in Bluefield Virginia on June 13.
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